"Lateral Ligament, Ankle" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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There are two lateral ligaments of the ankle - internal and external. The internal lateral ligament is attached to the apex and anterior and posterior bodies of the inner malleolus and inserted into the navicular bone, the inferior calcaneo-navicular ligament, the sustentaculum tali of the os calcis, and the inner side of the astragalus. The external lateral ligament, also called the lateral collateral ligament, consists of three distinct fasciculi - the calcaneofibular, the anterior talofibular, and the posterior talofibular.
| Descriptor ID |
D017844
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.513.514.162.500 A02.835.583.512.162.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Lateral Ligament, Ankle- Lateral Ligament, Ankle
- Ligamentum Laterale Articulationis Talocruralis
- Ankle Lateral Ligament
- Ankle Lateral Ligaments
- Lateral Ligaments, Ankle
- Ligament, Ankle Lateral
- Ligaments, Ankle Lateral
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